2d. The rapidity of its progress was manifestly subordinate to the activity of the movement of the equine races from points already infected. Its most rapid advance was along the lines of railway while the back districts shut out from railway traffic were much later in being invaded. The larger cities situated on the through railroad routes suffered earlier than the smaller places on the same lines. The outbreak was several days earlier in Montreal than in the nearer and smaller cities of Kingston, Ottawa, Belleville, Port Hope, Peterboro, Stratford, Brantford, Guelph, London and Owen Sound. The important port of St. John, N. B., suffered two weeks earlier than Quebec. Along the N. Y. Central and Erie Railways etc., Boston and New York suffered nearly a week earlier than Utica, Poughkeepsie, Binghampton, Elmira, and Jamestown, while the smaller places like Kingston, Nyack, Ithaca, etc., were later still. In Baltimore the disease was seen a day earlier than in Philadelphia, and in these cities and Washington over a fortnight before it was seen in Scranton, Pa. So it was almost everywhere and in these large cities the outbreak could in nearly every case be traced to horses just arrived from a pre-existing centre of infection. In Detroit, Syracuse and Chicago it spread first in stables that had just received Canadian horses, in Ithaca in one which had received horses from an infected centre in Northern New York and in Pittsburgh and Washington in stables that had just admitted horses from infected New York. 3d. It advanced with much greater rapidity eastward than westward, being in the line of greatest horse traffic, the animals being mainly raised and fitted in the West and shipped in large numbers to the great cities near the Atlantic seaboard. 4th. In the absence of this active railway traffic In horses, the advance was most rapid through other lines. In Pa., in a number of valleys opening to the south, the disease reversed its general direction, and extended northward up these valleys. In Lehigh Co., Pa., it followed the course of the canal, being carried by horses and mules employed on the towpath. In Davidson and Sumner Cos., Tenn., it followed the track of a circus which came through an infected locality. It reached the Pacific coast at Santa Barbara (not at the railway terminus at San Francisco) having followed a mule stage route in the absence of an active, westward progress of horses by rail.